[23] Variant design (D1) for a full five-bay front elevation, 7 November 1817

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  - London: National Debt Redemption Office, Old Jewry, City of London: designs, working drawings and drawings for exhibition, 1817-18, 1819, 1823 (100)

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Reference number

SM 48/2/15

Purpose

[23] Variant design (D1) for a full five-bay front elevation, 7 November 1817

Aspect

Front elevation, wall plan and section of wall for Design N^o (blank)

Scale

bar scale of 3 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Design N^o5 or 3 (mostly erased)
National Debt Redemption and Life Annuity Office (on building)

Signed and dated

Lincolns Inn Fields / Nov^r7^th1817

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, warm sepia, raw umber, burnt umber, black, blue, pink and green washes, shaded on wove paper (541 x 747)

Hand

Edward Foxhall (1793-1862, pupil 1812-1821) and Henry Parke (1790-1835, pupil 1814-1820) from Day Book

Notes

This is a copy of SM 48/2/23 to a reduced scale and not completely finished (some pencil lines not removed, lacks border). A comparison with designs C1-C3 shows that the ground floors are the same except that the incised semicircle with a Greek fret stop over three round-arched ground floor windows has gone. The upper two storeys have the projecting bays as 2 and 4 rather than 1, 3 and 5 and the plain corner pilasters increase in width from top to bottom, and are crowned by antefixes as is the balustrade over the three central bays. Conventional pedimented windows are found at each end of the first floor.

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